2018 Latinos in Israel: Language and Unexpected Citizenship. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

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1 Anthropology University of Toronto Scarborough 1265 Military Trail Toronto, ON M1C 1A4 Anthropology University of Toronto 19 Russell Street Toronto, ON M5S 2S2 Alejandro I. Paz ACADEMIC POSITION University of Toronto Pres Associate Professor of Anthropology Assistant Professor of Anthropology Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Humanities EDUCATION 2010 University of Chicago PhD in Anthropology and Linguistics (conferred with Distinction) 2000 Tel Aviv University MA in Middle East History (summa cum laude) 1995 Queen s University BA(Honours) in History and Economics (First Class) PUBLICATIONS Monograph 2018 Latinos in Israel: Language and Unexpected Citizenship. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Articles 2016 Introduction to Teleologies of Structuralism, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 6(3), pp Speaking like a Citizen: Public Opinion and the Biopolitics of Recognizing Noncitizen Children in Israel. Language and Communication, 48, pp Stranger Sociality in the Home: Register of the Israeli Street in Latino Domestic Interaction, for Asif Agha and Mister Frog (eds.), Registers of Communication, Helsinki, Finnish Literature Society, pp The Deterritorialization of Latino Educación: Noncitizen Latinos in Israel and the Everyday Diasporic Subject, in Rosina Márquez Reiter and Luisa Martín Rojo (eds.) A Sociolinguistics of Diaspora: Latino Practices, Identities and Ideologies, Routledge (Critical Studies in Multilingualism), pp Updated: June 26, 2018 Page 1 of 5

2 2014 Guiding Settler Jerusalem: Voice and the Transpositions of History in Religious Zionist Pilgrimage, Special Section on Pilgrimage to Holy Lands, Religion & Society, 5, pp Discourse Theory, for R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms (eds.) Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia. Sage, pp The Shifting Genres of Middle Eastern Registers of Political Communication: A Review Article, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 12/1: The Circulation of Chisme and Rumor: Gossip, Evidentiality and Authority in the Perspective of Latino Labor Migrants in Israel. Winner of Sapir Graduate Student Prize, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 19/1: DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP 2016 Initial launch of MediaCAT, web application that tracks digital dissemination of news, developed collaboratively. See mediacat.utsc.utoronto.ca. MAJOR FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS 2017 Co-investigator on Ivan Kalmar s Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant for Research on Islamophobia, Populism, and Media in Eastern EU Countries, with Nicholas Worby ( ) 2016 Centre for Teaching and Learning, UTSC, Teaching Enhancement Grant (2017) 2015 Vice-Principal Research, Research Competitiveness Fund ( ) 2011 Connaught New Researcher Grant, University of Toronto ( ) 2009 New Faculty Research Grant, University of Toronto Scarborough ( ) 2006 AICE Schusterman Award in Israel Studies ( ) 2004 Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant for Israel 2004 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant in Anthropology and Linguistics 2004 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Dissertation Fieldwork Grant 2004 Lady Davis Doctoral Fellowship, Hebrew University (declined) 2002 Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Dissertation Fellowship 2000 Phoenix Scholarship, University of Chicago ( ) HONORS AND AWARDS 2010 PhD Awarded with Distinction Graduate Student Paper Prize from the Society for Linguistic Anthropology MA Thesis Prize, Herzog Centre for Middle East Studies, Ben Gurion University. Updated: June 26, 2018 Page 2 of 5

3 PRESENTATIONS SINCE 2010 Seminars, Lectures, and Invited Papers 2018 The Global Dissemination of Online News, Global Explorations Speakers Series, University of Toronto Scarborough, April (Public Talk) El Sapo Speaks: Police Informers and the Voice of the State, Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University, November (Invited Paper) Settling History in the City of David: Biblical Historicism in Settler Tours of Occupied East Jerusalem, Ryerson Middle East and North Africa Studies Center, Ryerson University, October (Invited Paper) Emigrés and Globalizing Israeli Journalism: Preliminary Notes on Israeli English Online News, Israeli Emigres, Human Rights, and the Israel-Palestine Conflict Workshop, Balsillie School for International Affairs, University of Waterloo, June (Invited Paper) Settling Histories in the City of David: The Chronotopes of Settler Pilgrimage to an East Jerusalem Archaeological Site, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, May (Invited Paper) Memories of Diaspora: Publics, Ethnicity and the Process of Recognizing Children of Undocumented Labor Migrants in Israel, Workshop on Language, Interaction, and Social Relations, University of Toronto Mississauga, April New Anthropology of Palestine/Israel, Crossing Boundaries: Reading North Africa and the Middle East in Comparative Perspective, the University of Toronto, March Settling Histories in the City of David: Archaeological Guides and Territoriality in East Jerusalem. Centre for Ethnography Speakers Series on Pilgrimage, University of Toronto Scarborough, March (Invited Paper) More Israeli or More Arab? Publics, Ethnicity and the Process of Recognizing Children of Undocumented Labor Migrants in Israel National University of Singapore Workshop on Transnational Engagements, February (Invited Paper) Enregistering Ethnic Difference: Latino Labor Migrants Bilingual Discourse in Israel. Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics Speaker Series, York University, October (Invited Paper) The Registers of Ethnolinguistic Belonging: A Latino Diaspora of Discourse in Israel. Newberry Library Seminar in Borderlands and Latino Studies, Chicago, April. Conference Papers 2018 Trump s Message in Israel: Mediatization and Cultivating Publics Abroad, Society for Linguistic Anthropology Spring Meeting, Philadelphia, March Binding Citizenship: Complicity and Publicness among Latino Unauthorized Immigrants in Israel, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, November. Updated: June 26, 2018 Page 3 of 5

4 2016 El Sapo Speaks: Collaboration, Complicity and Citizenship among Non-Citizen Latinos in Israel, Society for Cultural Anthropology Meetings, Ithaca, May Curate my web crawl: Building a multiprocessing web crawler for ethnographic research, presented by Kim Pham, Code 4 Lib, Philadelphia, March Curated scrapes: Designing a web crawler for ethnographic research data, poster presentation co-prepared with Kim Pham, final participation declined, 11th International Digital Curation Conference, Amsterdam, February MediCAT, co-authored with Kim Pham, Archives Unleashed: Web Archive Hackathon, University of Toronto, February Buying Houses in Silwan: El-Ad and the Historicity of Colonialism, Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Denver, November The Strange Familiarity of Publicity: Latino Labor Migrant Youth and the Campaign for Israeli Citizenship, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Denver, November El Sapo Speaks: Police Informers, State Voice and Latino Labor Migrants in Israel, Cosmologies of the Collective, University of Notre Dame, April El Sapo Speaks: Police Informers, State Voice and Latino Labor Migrants in Israel, Semiotic Anthropology Conference, University of Pennsylvania, May The Dialectics of Genre and Register in Bilingual Communication: The Case of Latino Labor Migrants in Israel, Georgetown University Roundtable, March The People Speak Through (Foreign) Children: Noncitizen Youth, Native Hebrew, and Immigration Policy in Israel, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, December The Liberal Pact of Publicity: Voices, Voicing, and the Recognition of Undocumented Labor Migrant Children by the Israeli State, The Ethnographic Pact, UTSC, November Invited participation in Presidential Panel on Language and Mobility, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November Speaking like a Future Citizen: Noncitizen Youth Address the Israeli Public, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November Introducing the Circulation of Politics, with Jessica Greenberg, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November Educación in Diaspora: Registers of Modernity and Tradition among Urban Latino Labor Migrants in Israel Sociolinguistics Symposium 19, Berlin, Panel on Latino Social Networks in the City, August The Dialectics of Genre and Register in Bilingual Communication: The Case of Latino Labor Migrants in Israel, Register: Intersections of Language, Context and Communication, University of Helsinki, May Tracing the Entry to Diaspora: The Chronotopes of Third World Border-Crossers, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, November. Updated: June 26, 2018 Page 4 of 5

5 2010 Unpacking the Imagined Power of Publicity: Public Discourses among Latino Labor Migrants in Israel, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November. COURSES AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Courses Taught Undergraduate Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Anthropology of the Middle East Anthropology of Media and Publics Global Politics of Language Language and Culture (Interdisciplinary Humanities) Spacetime, Perspective, Narrative (Interdisciplinary Humanities) Human, Inhuman, Nonhuman (Interdisciplinary Humanities) Language and Ethnicity (Linguistics) Graduate Language and Communication in Trans/Nationalism (Anthropology) Foundations of Linguistic Anthropology (Anthropology) Media and Mediation (Anthropology) Professional Service Book Review Editor for the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology ( ) Program Reviewer for Association of Political and Legal Anthropologists ( ) Member of Committee for Social Justice of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology Reviewed articles for American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Spanish in Context. Updated: June 26, 2018 Page 5 of 5